Haunted || Bucky Barnes

Chapter 8

A/N: FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER EPISODE 3 SPOILERS AHEAD! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK! Okay, I'm slowly but surely trying to catch up! The rest of Episode 3 will be covered in the next chapter (when it will be posted is TBD). Hope you all are enjoying reading this! Feel free to comment and vote!

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"Absolutely not!" Alyssa yelled as she pulled away from Bucky. She wanted him to be joking, but from the look on his face she could tell that he wasn't.

"Aly, we don't have another choice." He defended himself.

"I hate it, but I'm going to have to agree with him, Aly." Sam spoke up.

"You are not going to be in a room alone with Zemo! I'm not having it!" She told him.

"Then don't go!" He shot back, voice raised.

The three stood in silence. Aly's mind was going a mile a minute, running through all the worst case scenarios.

"It's not that I don't trust you, Buck. I don't trust him," She stated, pinching the bridge of her nose. "But I'm going. You're not banning me. Let's go."

Alyssa started walking down the street. The boys exchanged a questioning look, Bucky shaking his head and Sam shrugging, before heading down the street after her.

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"He's going to be okay." Sam assured her as she paced in the hallway. Bucky had just gone in to see Zemo alone after convincing the two it was for the best.

"You don't know that." Alyssa mumbled under her breath, still pacing. What if the words weren't actually out of his head? What if Zemo said something that triggered him somehow? What if Zemo got out somehow and attacked him? What if-

"Will you stop?" Sam asked, grabbing her by the arm. "Just relax." She glared at him, but he quickly pulled her into a hug which she gratefully returned.

"I'm just worried." She whispered as he rubbed her back.

"I know you are, Aly. I'm worried about him too even if he is a pain in my ass." Sam told her. She chuckled slightly at the comment.

"Wait, you are? Did something happen in therapy?" She questioned, immediately pulling away to look at him.

"I mean kind of-" Sam started but was cut off by Bucky reentering the hallway. "We'll talk later." He followed up in a hushed tone. The two followed Bucky down the hallway and out of the building.

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"Where the hell are we?" Sam asked as the three walked around in some building Bucky led them to. It was dark and they were using flashlights to navigate. Bucky didn't answer. He simply found the light switch and turned it on.

They were in some sort of garage, tools strewn about everywhere. There was a car with its hood popped off to the side.

Bucky and Sam were arguing while Alyssa decided to look around and scout the area. She couldn't piece together why Bucky had brought them here. It seemed like a regular garage.

"Look, let me just walk you through a hypothetical. Can I walk you through a hypothetical?" Bucky finally asked.

"James..." Aly said in a warning tone, turning her attention back to the two men on the other side of the room. "What did you do?"

"I didn't do anything." He replied. He then proceeded to talk through a very elaborate situation for a simple hypothetical. Sam kept interrupting with questions, but she just stood in silence. She grabbed a wrench and crossed her arms, concealing it.